Marketing Your Optical on YouTube

[youtube KIceRvSxn18] YouTube can be a fun and effective way to market your optical business, particularly if you are targeting a younger demographic (although the YouTube demographic is getting older every day). Even if your production does not become the next viral...

ECP Mag Misses the Point

ECP Magazine has published in this month’s issue a blog entry I made awhile back regarding my argument for use of the word customer over patient in optical. Paul King, an optician and column writer for ECP thinks I missed the key point which is "caring", when caring...

Attract New Customers by New Year

For many small businesses, including most in the optical industry, the purpose of a website is not to sell, but rather to provide additional avenues whereby customers can find your business. The internet is becoming an increasingly important medium in which to make...

Optical’s Marketing Deceptions

Today Seth Godin riffs about marketers that conceal versus marketers that reveal. I think marketers of businesses both small and large, in fact all of us, have been trained to put our best face forward and to conceal our faults. Many take this right up to and even...

ABC Slams LensCrafters Opticians

An ABC affiliate in Fort Worth did what can only be considered a hit piece last week in which they had bifocal prescriptions filled at WalMart, Costco, Target, and LensCrafters then had three optometrists inspect the resulting lenses to determine if they met their...